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Kedleston Craft & Country Fair, Apr 21 to Apr 22, 2012
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Kedleston Hall,
Nr Quarndon, Derby, Derbyshire, DE22 5JH
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Studio glass or glass sculpture is the modern use of glass as an artistic medium to produce sculptures or three-dimensional artworks. Specific approaches include working glass at room temperature cold working, stained glass, working glass in a torch flame (lampworking), glass beadmaking, glass casting, glass fusing, and, most notably, glass blowing.
British Glass Art owes much to the long history of craft. The majority of its glass blowers who operate small studio furnaces produce aesthetically beautiful though primarily functional objects. Technical skill as a blower is given as much importance as the artistic intent.
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In art history, ceramics and ceramic art mean art objects such as figures, tiles, and tableware made from clay and other raw materials by the process of pottery. Some ceramic products are regarded as fine art, while others are regarded as decorative, industrial or applied art objects, or as artifacts in archaeology. They may be made by one individual or in a factory where a group of people design, make and decorate the ware. Decorative ceramics are sometimes called "art pottery".
Studio pottery is made by artists working alone or in small groups, producing unique items or short runs, typically with all stages of manufacture carried out by one individual. It is represented by potters all over the world but has strong roots in Britain.
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Textiles - covers a wide range of Crafts and Skills to produce material, or products from a variety of different processes. These processes vary from spinning and weaving, knitting, crochet from yarn or fibres.
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Throughout our events you will find a fabulous selection of many different types of Jewellery. From gold to silver and precious to sem i-precious stones, the designs will vary, but the quality will not.
 As an added feature at our events, we've encouraged some of our jewellers to actually show you how they craft their designs. you can watch this fascinating skill and would encourage you to actively participate by asking questions.
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With so many Crafts and Demonstrations at Living Heritage Craft Fairs, its hard to catorgaries all of them. At the Shows you will find a wide range of Skills on Display that may use a number of different techniques to produce hand crafted goods.
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The gardens and grounds, as they appear today are largely the concept of Robert Adam. Adam was asked by Nathaniel Curzon in 1758 to "take in hand the deer park and pleasure grounds". The landscape gardener William Emes had begun work at Kedleston in 1756, and he continued in Curzon's employ until 1760; however, it was Adam who was the guiding influence. It was during this period that the former gardens designed by Charles Bridgeman were swept away in favour of a more natural looking landscape. Bridgeman's canals and geometric ponds were metamorphosed into serpentine lakes.
The Bridge by Robert Adam
Adam designed numerous temples and follies, many of which were never built. Those that were include the North lodge which takes the form of a triumphal arch, the entrance lodges in the village, a bridge, cascade and the Fishing Room. The Fishing Room is one of the most noticeable of the parks buildings. In the neoclassical style it is sited on the edge of the upper lake and contains a cold bath and boat house below. Some of Adam's unexecuted design for follies in the park rivalled in grandeur the house itself. A "View Tower" designed in 1760 – 84 feet high and 50 feet wide on five floors, surmounted by a saucer dome flanked by the smaller domes of flanking towers — would have been a small neoclassical palace itself. Adam planned to transform even mundane utilitarian buildings into architectural wonders. A design for a pheasant house (a platform to provide a vantage point for the game shooting) became a domed temple, the roofs of its classical porticos providing the necessary platforms; this plan too was never completed.
In the 1770s George Richardson designed the hexagonal summerhouse, and in 1800 the orangery. The Long Walk was laid out in 1760 and planted with flowering shrubs and ornamental trees. In 1763 it was reported that Lord Curzon had given his gardener a seed from rare and scarce Italian shrub, the "Rodo Dendrone".
The gardens and grounds today, over two hundred years later, remain mostly unaltered.
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Kedleston Hall,
Nr Quarndon, Derby, Derbyshire, DE22 5JH
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